A country is not able to produce 100 units of good A, and 100 units of good B, the country must split the work in half, perhaps by producing 50 units of each product. This is where the opportunity cost of producing a product comes in to play; the opportunity cost of producing more of good A, for example, is the units of good B that could have been produced in that time. In the biological market when cells produce amino acids and other metabolic products the cell needs to make a choice because like a country, the cell is not able to produce a maximum amount of each metabolic product. When examining two identical cells and their function in the biological markets, cells seem to specialize in producing one metabolic product and creating excess which are then traded between identical cells in exchange for a different metabolic product the other cell has specialized in. When this occurs in the economic market it is phrased by a term called comparative advantage in which case, similar to countries interacting, a cell and a cell alike are both producing for themselves, however if cell A is more efficient at producing a vital amino acid and cell B is more efficient at producing a different vital
A country is not able to produce 100 units of good A, and 100 units of good B, the country must split the work in half, perhaps by producing 50 units of each product. This is where the opportunity cost of producing a product comes in to play; the opportunity cost of producing more of good A, for example, is the units of good B that could have been produced in that time. In the biological market when cells produce amino acids and other metabolic products the cell needs to make a choice because like a country, the cell is not able to produce a maximum amount of each metabolic product. When examining two identical cells and their function in the biological markets, cells seem to specialize in producing one metabolic product and creating excess which are then traded between identical cells in exchange for a different metabolic product the other cell has specialized in. When this occurs in the economic market it is phrased by a term called comparative advantage in which case, similar to countries interacting, a cell and a cell alike are both producing for themselves, however if cell A is more efficient at producing a vital amino acid and cell B is more efficient at producing a different vital